So I might have just found something...really...strange...
So I thought this game was purely a straight forward VN, linear with branching choices...typical stuff, but there's also seems to be a "hidden" sandbox version of the game. When I say sandbox I'm talking a full on rendered house that you can explore with a UI that's completely different than the base game. Here's how I found it. First click Load or Preferences at the main game screen and then go to > Help. You'll find a lineup screen that looks like this:
Kira and Eve have a list of events you can get hints to unlock and the last two are "unavailable". If you press X you enter this virtual desktop:
internet - the first time I clicked it literally leads to a sandbox version of the game, but for some reason when I tried to test it a second time it would give me this page and then immediately error out and crash:
I'm kicking myself for not taking screenshots of the sandbox version the first time I saw it, but I foolishly thought I could get back into it.
photos - just gives you a text message "(I don't have any photos yet)"
newfolder(2) - does nothing (I think)
homework - does nothing (I think)
X - leads to an error page that leads to a game crash
MonkeyHelp - is effectively a back button and returns you to the initial line-up screen
Recycle Bin - jumps you to this scene below from the base game, with no ability to bring up the menu. For some reason it takes forever to load (I think you need to click twice to unlock it?) and you're preferred MC's name is missing:
...this is so weird lol. Has anyone ran into this? What in god's name have I stumbled across??? I'll keep plugging away at this and see if I can get back into that hidden sandbox mode. Was this like an older version of the game that somehow made it into this build?
UPDATE:
AH! I figured it out finally. Here's the steps you need to take
1) Run Game
2) Load any existing save at the Main Menu
3) Right Click to open menu
4) Go to Help
5) Click X at the Character Lineup Screen
6) Click internet folder once
You'll get this message as an overlay on top of your save/load screen:
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7) Click anywhere on the screen
8) Voila! You're in the Sandbox version of the game:
Keep in mind that clicking right immediately resets you back to the initial vanilla save that you loaded.